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Text by WILLIAM WIRT MILLS 

NATURE stored such quantities of plastic ( 
about the site of Trenton that it has become I 
pottery manufacturing centre in America. 
Then came the railroads, finding Trenton 30 miles 
from Philadelphia and 60 from New York, 
and the capital of New Jersey developed widely 
diversified manufacturing interests, with 
and its -products figuring first in value 
the output of this, well situated city. 

Trenton was settled by the Friends in 
and was named The Falls^ from the rapid 
in lI, ' Delaware that marked the northeri 
limit of free navigation^ In 1719 th 
village became known as Trent's town 
being the home ot a rich planter, Willian 
Trent, who was Chief Justice of the colnn 
of New Jersey. 

Incorporated as a borough in 1746, 
Trenton became the State capital in 1790 
and was chartered as a city in 1792. 
The Continental Congress met here in 
1783-84, and decidrd to lay out the 
Nation's capital, on either side of the 
river, but the next year the opposition of 
the South reversed the action and pre- 
vented Trenton from becoming the capita! 
of the United States. 

In 1729, Trenton, being on the srage 
coach route between Philadelphia and 
New York, had one mail a week, three a 
week in 1764, and in 1791 Trenton was 
one ot the six post offices in New Jersey. 

By 1830 the city had 5,000 inhabitants^ 29,910 

73,307 in 1900; 84,180 in 1905, and about 95,000 

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Photographs by C. J. GREENLEAF 

vith an area ot 4,481 acres. In 1905 there were 16,546 families 
nd 14,940 dwellings, practically a house for each family. 

The city has 72 miles of electric street railways, and is the 
centre of suburban systems with 350 miles of tracks, 

The capital invested in manufactures in Trenton 

;ed from $26,175,000 in 1900 to ]Ss4i,623,232 

in 1905, and exceeded $55,000,000 in 1909, with some 

400 industrial establishments turning out manufactured 

th S6o,ooo,ooo, em.ploying 1,300 

salaried men and some 15,500 wage earners, 

with pay rolls footing up to nearly 5^2, 000,- 

000 a year. 

Some 48 potteries employ nearly 7,000 
hands and turn out over $8,000,000 
worth of china, porcelain, white granite, 
brown ware, decorative tiles, terra cotta 
and drain pipes. 

The great wire and cable works of 
the John A. Roebling's Sons Company, 
covering 30 acres, employing about 5,000 
men, have an output of 315,000,000. 
(Jther large concerns are the plants of the 
an Bridge Company and the Jordan 



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The diversified character of the city's 
industries, with some 75 different lines 
of manufactures, assures Trenton's indus- 
trial stability and a steady and rapid growth 
in wealth and population. 

Trenton has three daily newspapers, 

II two cent papers: one evening, The 

rimes; two morning. The State Gazette 

(founded 1792) and The True American; one Sunday, The 

Advertiser, and a half dozen weekly class publications. 

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MONUMENT y^q JOHN A. ROEBLING 
gner and Bui'ltler nf the Greai Brooklyn Bridgi 

1880; 
1909, 
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CITY HALL, designed by Stephen Roberts; offices of Mayor, Common Council and administrative boards; taxable realty, ;?i 70,000,0005 
personalty, Sio»o0OiOO0; municipal realty, including §350,000 in parks, worth £3,000,000; water works, established 1802, bought by city 
in 1859, worth $2,200,000, earn $50,000 a year above cost of operation; funded debt, $3,000,000, including S690.000 on water plant. 




BUSINESS SECTION OF TRENTON .„ 
buildings, Public Library (white mjrble), nju S 
Rjilroad runs south alonn th- cast bank of th 



npactly built, 
L- Armory (with immensi- .out), big ... 
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at the right, Delaware River ,n the background 
at the left and across Assunpink Creek in South T| 
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c.t,MHind, St M,ir\ R III 111 I. itholii. Cathedral, old First Presbyterian Church (with cupola), stores and office 
3d passes through the manutacturin district, crossing the Delaware to Pennsylvania, while the old Camden & Ambov 
ware and Raritan Canal, which bisects the city. Trolley lines connect Trenton with Philadelphia and New York. 




BR().\DSrREtT\AT10\-\I BANK BUILDING, strung fin- COMMONWEAL IH BllLDlNC, l,.in>i,omc m.,d.rn business 
inualin.titutiun, upitaLind buii.lus, ,^5 50,000; deposits, $2,000,000. block, with stores and uflices, at lleart ut Trenton's business activity; 
Trenton's seven banks and trust companies have JSi 7,000,000 deposits, centre of the lively real estate business that is developing the suburbs. 



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MLRCbR riOSI II M 
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1,300 inmates; 



S J FRANX'IS HOSPITAL, mainuined by Human Catholic sisters. 
npened 1848; 15,000 patients cared fur in 60 years; now 
ary at' io,ooo volumes. City also has McKinley Hospital. 




CLINTON AVENUE BAP- QUAKER MEETING, the Friends tmtc dominated Trenton. FIRST PRESBYTERIAN 
TIST CHURCH; picturesque BETHANY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, tine group uf build- CHURCH, founded 1726; 
rine-covered house of worship, ings; Presbyterians strongest Protestant body in Trenton, 6,000 mbrs. splendidly preserved old building. 




SOLDIERS' AM' ^.Ul,wli,^ STATE ARMORV, splendiH 5^50,000 itructurc erected 1904. BATTLE M O N LM ENT, 
MONUMENT, C'ldwjlader BARRACKS, built 1758; picturesque survival of the occu- 150-tt. granite shaft; 13-tt. 
Park; memorial of Civil War. pation of Trenton by thi British mercenaries in 1776. statue of George Washington. 




■W'ASHIXGTON MONUMENT, Cadwabder Park; commemorat- CADWALADER PARK., I oo acres of beautiful pleasure ground, 
ing his exploit in crossingthe Delaware Dec. 25, 1776, capturing 1,000 Riverside Park extends for two miles along the Delaware. 
Hessians, 6 field pieces 12,000 stands of arms, withoutloss of one man. COUNTRY' CLUB, home of fashionable social organization. 




BRIDGE over the LVIauarr ulifir W.ul.inft.m U" r.;, hui.t ] Si o 
rebuilt 1875; first through stage route from New York to PhiU 
OLD HOL'SE in which Waihington stopped after Battle ut" Trenton 



MARKER erected by the Cincinnati to show where \V j,t,u,.t. n 
crossed the Delaware to capture Trenton, which made possible his bril- 
liant New Jerse> campaig'i in 1777, turning the tide otthe Revolution, 



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